Fractures

Name: Fractures at Associated Wholesale Grocers
Start: 8/23/2018

1 hospitalization · 2018088731 · 8/23/2018 · Associated Wholesale Grocers

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Lower leg(s)
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
Source: Pallet jack-powered

Employer

Name: Associated Wholesale Grocers
Location: 1301 W Omaha Ave, NORFOLK, NEBRASKA, 68701
NAICS: 424410
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

Two employees were talking near the machine one of them had been operating. A double pallet jack backed out of the adjoining aisle and struck one of the two, pinching his left leg/ankle against the other employee's machine. He suffered fractures to his left tibia/fibula.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown